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Witches Today

Witches have made the headlines lately, both in Germany and England. Mob -
violence is reported from Franconia, a Catholic province with a somewhat
backward peasant population, against half-crazed old women accused of
bewitching their neighbours. Farmer Sepp's best cow dies mysteriously, lice
infest his house, his well dries up, his wife miscarries. Who is to blame?
Mitzi, of course, who lives at the end of the lane and once mumbled
something nasty when farmer Sepp accused her of stealing his apples. Nobody
likes Old Mitzi, and the cat is doubtless a demonic familiar.

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Julius Streicher, Nazi editor of Der Sturmer and Gouleiter of Franconia,
exploited these old-fashioned witch hunting instincts when he blamed the
Jews for all Germany's ills.

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Robert Graves (1963)

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